Multiple coin ejector



Sept. 13, 1960 N. Foss 2,952,372

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MULTIPLE: COIN EJECTOR Filed March 51, 1955 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG. 4 l .0

ENTOR. NORMAN FOSS ATTORNEY Unite tes . fl OfiFlC 2,952,372 Patented Sept. 13, 1960 MULTIPLE COIN EJECTOR Norman Foss, Shaker Heights, Ohio, assignor to Gardner Greene, Cleveland, Ohio Filed Mar. 31, 1955, Ser. No. 498,250 Claims. (Cl. 214-310) This invention relates to coin delivery apparatus and has particular significance in connection with a multiple coin ejector for rapidly processing filled cardboard type coin savers.

Heretofore it has been well known practice for banks, veterans organizations, churches or other groups to provide cardboard type multiple coin savers. For example a savings bank may put out a cardboard two-page folder having openings for collecting 30 dimes, there being suitable advertising and instructive printing on some or all of the pages to promote use of the card for dime-saving daily or to serve other purposes. However, quite a problem arises when the filled books come back to the institution and the coins must be removed from the card. It is only with some effort that the paper or cardboard can be broken so that each coin can be removed and it is, of course, desirable that cardboard or paper fragments not be mixed with the coins. Heretofore the problem has been so serious that individual banks have allowed thousands of dollars worth of such cards to accumulate in filled condition until labor could be spared to remove the coins. Even then, while the manual worker might start out fast in the first five or ten minutes, thereafter the average per worker is only about two cards a minute when the coins are removed by hand, a tiresome and tedious process.

It is an object of the present invention to provide simple and inexpensive means for overcoming the above mentioned difiiculties.

Another object of the invention is to provide a machine for simultaneously punching multiple coins out of a cardboard or paper type coin saver without intermixing of cardboard or paper fragments with coins as they are punched out.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent and the invention will be better understood from consideration of the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a coin ejector constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the device shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional elevation along the line of 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is an enlargement of a portion of the view as in Fig. 3 but showing coins being removed from a card inserted in the machine; and

Fig. 5 is a plan view of an individual card with some of the parts turned back from normal position to show construction of the card.

Referring to Fig. 1, the device of the invention is shown as comprising amain cover 10, a base trim 11, a drawer front 12 having a drawer handle 13. Above the drawer front is a card receiving slot 14. A card support plate 15 extends through the slot at its bottom. In Figs. 1-4 an opened card 16, hereafter described, is shown supported by the plate 15 in the card receiving slot 14.

As also shown in Fig. 1 the main cover 10 is provided with a vertical slot 17 to accommodate an operating handle stem 18 to which is secured a grip portion 19. If desired the arrangement may be made attractive by using rounded corners and edges, and providing a gray wrinkled finish for the cover 10 and base trim 11 and drawer front 12, and chrome plating such parts as the drawer handle 13, and card support plate 15.

As most clearly seen in Figs. 2 and 3 the drawer front 12 is attached to an open top receptacle or tray 20 as by screws 21. Tray 20 has narrow support portions 22 at either side mating with correspondingly shaped portions 23 to provide a low friction track, portions 23 being on or part of a sheet metal member 24 bent around (or stamped bent) to be supported at places such as at the bottoms of the ends of cover 10, by bolts 25.

At its inner end the operating handle stem 18 is secured, as by welding to a cam plate 26. Cam 26 rotates about a pivot provided by a shaft 27 secured in a bifurcated portion 28 of a yoke member 29 secured as by machine screws 30 to uprights 31 of an operating base member 32 which may (as shown) be formed integral with the card supporting plate 15. Base or plate (32, 15) is provided with a plurality of transversely and vertically extending coin slots (l5sl-15s6 in Fig. 2) to receive coins when punched from the card after having been arranged therein in a predetermined pattern, for example in six rows of five coins per row as in a common type dime saver card as shown (without coins) in Fig. 5.

As shown in Figs. 24, there is located above card plate 15 an upper card stop plate 33 provided with perforations corresponding in location to the individual coins in a card of the type which the machine is set up to punch. This member 33 is mounted as by screws 34 upon the base 15, 32 and generally just above the top of the card receiving opening 14. Extending through the individual perforations of stop plate 33 are shown a plurality of tapered punches 35 supported from a common punch operating plate 36 which in turn is supported by a screw 37 from a vertical operating pin 38 operating through a bearing bushing 39 to pass through the adjacent portion of the yoke 29. Pin 38 terminates at its upper end in a rounded surface 40 which makes rocking and sliding engagement with a portion of the cam plate 26. A compression spring 41 surrounds pin 38 and bushing 39 with the spring bottom seated upon a portion of the yoke 29 and its top engaging a washer 42 which through the medium of a pin 43' tends to force the operating pin upwards. For the inoperative position (that is, of no force upon the operating handle grip 19) pin 38 is urged upwardly by the spring 41 to the position shown in Fig. 2, the individual punches 35 are well above the card 16, and the pin 38 holds the cam 26 and consequently the handle stem 18 and grip 19 in the upward position shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and in solid lines in Fig. 1. With application of force to the handle grip as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the handle grip and stem move downward and so does the cam plate until it takes the position shown in the enlargement of Fig. 4 where the spring 41 is compressed and the vertical pin 38 has forced the plate 36 and its punches 35 downward until the coins are all ejected from the card, punch movement downward thereafter being stopped as washer 42 hits the upper end of the bushing 39 (see Fig. 4).

If desired various refinements may be added such as a punch plate aligning pin 44 making sliding engagement with a hole 39 provided in the yoke 22 (see Fig. 2), a card backstop pin 45 fixed or adjustable with respect to card support 15 (see Figs. 3 and 4), and a base enclosing plate 46 secured as by rubber headed screws 47 which also serve as feet (see Figs. 2 and 3).

The invention may be better understood by consideration of Fig. which is a view of an ordinary coin saver card (parts broken away) as it exists before it is filled with coins and before it is inserted in the machine of the invention to remove the coins. Normally such a card comprises an ordinary paper backing 50' (shown forwardly in Fig. 5). Backing 50 is generally imperforate, and carries advertising and educational printing, and is secured as by glue 51 to a card'coard spacer 52 which is provided with a plurality of circular openings or slots 53 for receiving coins. For some reason the cards appear to be mostly of standard size and cards adapted to receive the same type coins seem to have the location and spacing of these openings the same regardless of the manufacturer of the card.

In order to retain the coins within the slots after they are inserted, the card of Fig. 5. is provided with a paper facing 54 (shown farthest from the viewer in Fig. 5) which likewise is secured as by glue 51 to the spacer 52. Paper 54 is provided with half circle openings 55 which are in alignment with the top halves of the slots 53 in the cardboard spacer 52 so that a coin may be inserted through the half openings to be kept within the full circular openings of the spacer. Usually the paper facing 54 is provided with advertising or other printing to indicate, for example, the monetary value of sequential accumulations as coins are put in in a certain order, for example across the card row by row.

The showing in Fig. 5 differs from the showing in Figs. 24 in that in Fig. 5 no coins are shown whereas in the figures showing the card 16 inserted in the machine the coins themselves are shown at 56. It is desirable to make the punches somewhat off-center with respect to the coins to obtain best leverage on them since the coins may pivot around the half circle openings. For example, punches may be located towards the back of the machine as viewed in Figs. 3 and 4 (where the front of the machine is considered to be the side having the card receiving slot 14). Whether punches are off-center or not, the card can either be inserted with the top of the printing solid backing 50 uppermost (as shown in the drawings) or with this solid backing downward and the wins will still push out of the paper backing or facing. Further the card either be inserted with the top of the printing toward the back of the machine (as indicated by the arrow 60 in Fig. 5) or opposite end with the top of the printing towards the front and the machine will operate almost as well in any of the four cases perforating or splitting the solid backing 50 with or without splitting and pushing aside portions of the half-round perforated facing 54 and forcing the individual coins 61 downward into the tray as shown in Fig. 4, with the result that better than 20 cards per minute can be processed with the machine of the invention whereas it is only possible to process some two cards per minute by hand or with av hand pick or punch.

I have found it quite essential that the individual punch members 35 be pointed or tapered to a point as shown in order that they will not blank out paper to become mixed with the coins in the tray and then have to be separated from them. A straight shank would either blank out such paper, or else be too small and" fragile particularly since the punches are preferably hardened, e.g. to about Rockwell 53.

In operation of the device in accordance with the invention, the plates may readily be changed to adapt the machine to diiferent denomination coin cards. Thus, if a quarter card is to be punched instead of a thirty dime card the main cover is removed, and a new operating base 32 complete with card supporting plate 15, punch carrying support 36, and upper card stop 33 may be subsituted to punch out quarters which will be arranged in a ditferent pattern and with different spacing (to accommodate some twenty quarters per card in usual practice). Additional plates, punches and dies may be supplied to at punch out other arrangements as of cards each holding one quarter, one dime, and one nickle.

The machine of the invention is quite universal and can accommodate most any type coin saver from any bank or other organization, even if as it is odd shaped as its outer limits (for example to simulate a piggy) and if difierent type cards are for the same denomination of coins this accommodation may usually be made by just taking the top off and adjusting the backstop. The punch plate spring retraction feature allows easy withdrawal of the coin saver card after it has been punched, and the employment of pivot means offset from the point of application of pressure to the vertical punch moving pin has great advantages of easy operation. For example a simple hinged lid (e.g. having nails for punches) would hardly be operative at all because the nails or pins would move through an arc and dig into the cardboard from an angle and not be very effective in removing coins from a card with rapidity and precision.

While I have illustrated and described a particular embodiment of the invention, various modifications can obviously be made, for example the lower base could be a casting instead of stamped, or it could be of wood, and I desire it to be understood that modifications can be made without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention which I intend to define in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. Coin delivery apparatus and for the use with coin filled multi-layer paper and cardboard type multiple coin saver cards of the type having full circular round coin holding apertures and adjacent half circular apertures for introducing coins into the full circular apertures, said apparatus comprising an operating member base, a horizontal card support plate associated with said base and having vertical openings therethrough at least coextensive with the coins in a card when placed thereabove, a punch operating plate member located generally above the card support plate and journaled with respect to a portionof the operating member base for vertical movement with respect to the card support plate, said punch operating plate member having a plurality of individual tapered punches having pointed lower ends and arranged to be horizontally aligned with predetermined portions of said full circular apertures when a predetermined type. card is in position on the support plate and for passing out coins without blanking out paper or cardboard from the card, offset pivoted cam means pivoted upon a portion of said operating member base and having a surface arranged to cause downward vertical movement of the punch operating plate member, operating handle means associated with the cam means and for forcing the punch operating plate member downwardly, and spring means bottomed upon a portion of the operating member base and having an upper end secured to normally force the punch operating plate member upwardly to permit free insertion or withdrawal of cards when the punch is not being made operative through application of outside force to the handle means, whereby filled coin saver cards may be rapidly processed without cardboard or paper fragments becoming intermixed with ejected coins.

2. Coin delivery apparatus as in claim 1 further characterized by an upper card stop plate comprising a plate secured to a portion of the base and arranged to extend above a card when inserted in the machine, said upper card stop plate having a plurality of perforations to accommodate the punches in their downward travel while acting to limit upward movement of card during upward travel of punches thereby to permit of easy removal of processed cards.

3. Coin delivery apparatus as in claim 1 further characterized by an aligning pin attached to the punch operating plate member and journaled in a portion of the operating. member base.

4. Coin delivery apparatus as in claim 1 further characterized by an outer cover for the apparatus, said cover having an aperture for the operating handle means, an aperture for receiving cards above the card support plate, and an aperture below the card support plate and for a coin receiving tray, and a tray arranged to be slideable through said last mentioned aperture.

5. Coin delivery apparatus as in claim 1 further characterized by the horizontal card support plate vertical openings being round so as to have individual centers, and the arrangement of individual tapered punches being such that they pass through the half circular apertures References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,597,950 Baynes Aug. 31, 1926 10 2,366,886 Van Tuyl Jan. 9, 1945 2,386,076 Taylor et al Oct. 2, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent No. 2,952 ,372 September 13, 1960 Norman Foss It is herebfi certified that error appears in theprinted specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction and that the said Letters Patent should read as corrected below.

Column 3, line 9 for "eardcoard" read cardboard line 40, for "the card can either be inserted with the top of the printing" read the card can apparently be equally well inserted with the line 44 after "card" insert can I column 4, line 46, for "passing" read pressing Signed and sealed this 4th day of April 1961,

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WW ARTHUR w. CROCKER Attesting Oflicer Acting Commissioner of Patents 

